It
has been the custom of the modern church to attach more and more importance to the celebration of the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion, and to-day this celebration is regarded by numbers of good Christians as the principal and all-important part of their religious observances.
As
we see the benefits resulting from Christian Science treatment in our own cases or the cases of others of which we have positive and undoubted knowledge, as we read in our periodicals of innumerable cases healed through Christian Science after so-called medical science had failed, we are no longer surprised at its rapid spread, or that the question, "What is Christian Science?
A measure
recently introduced in the Iowa Legislature illustrates the necessity for careful and prayerful watchfulness upon the part of Christian Scientists.
It is a marked feature of religious literature, and of secular as well, both in England and in America, that there is a call for a revival of religion.
The study of Christian Science should teach one that the mental and moral attitude of the patient and family is a large factor in bringing out the results desired, and their conscious or unconscious fear of death is the most potent enemy to contend against.
Few realize the inconsistency of the accepted beliefs of the individual until they undertake to formulate them into a system and make them harmonize with a given rule.
The aim referred to in these words of our Leader, she has faithfully pursued, and the pursuit has been blessed indeed, for, wherever there are students of Christian Science the testimony is given that through her works a new understanding of the Scriptures has been gained.
The
world's thought has been controlled so long by its medical and religious systems that any practical departure from them is looked upon as dangerous folly on the one hand and heresy on the other.
